Sparsh (Devnagari: स्पर्श, in English: Touch) is a 1980 Bollywood feature film directed by Sai Paranjpye. It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi playing the characters of a visually handicapped principal and a "sighted" teacher in a School of the Blind, where both the characters falls in love with each other though soon their complexes tag along and they struggle to get pass them to reconnect with the "touch" of love. The film remains most me...
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Sparsh (Devnagari: स्पर्श, in English: Touch) is a 1980 Bollywood feature film directed by Sai Paranjpye. It stars Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi playing the characters of a visually handicapped principal and a "sighted" teacher in a School of the Blind, where both the characters falls in love with each other though soon their complexes tag along and they struggle to get pass them to reconnect with the "touch" of love. The film remains most memorable for the subtle acting of both its leads, plus the handling of the issue of relationships with the visually handicap, revealing the emotional and perception divide between the world, the "Blind" and the "Sighted", epitomized by the characters .
The film went to win numerous awards including National Film Award - Best Actor for Naseeruddin Shah, while Sai Paranjpye got the Best Screenplay, later the Filmfare Awards, it won the top two that of Best Movie and Filmfare Award - Best Director, plus a Best Dialogue Award for Sai Paranjpye....
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